healthcare marketing

Patients are going digital — and taking the healthcare system with them. Learn how in the 2017 Digital Trends in Healthcare and Pharma report.
Download it now to learn:
Why two-thirds of healthcare companies are investing in data analysis.
How they’re building content marketing programs to boost patient knowledge.
What they plan to do with virtual and augmented reality this year and beyond.

Marketers face a unique challenge to allocate resources across a variety of tactics to target key audiences that need their product or service – with limited information on what combination of products or services will have the optimum impact, which target audience members are ideal fits, and what allocations will provide the best return on investment to the organization. Healthcare has its own myriad of challenges, including many local, regional, and national options for consumers, service line variations, and disparate demographics. The good news is that there is an emerging understanding of digital and multichannel marketing, and ample opportunity to define best practices, systematically calculate marketing effectiveness and return on marketing investment (ROMI), and use technology and data to create great business outcomes.

Changing healthcare market forces, such as value-based care models, consolidation, and payer mix erosion, have propagated declining margins and fueled hyper-competition among healthcare organizations vying for market share. In this new world, determining effective patient engagement strategies has become paramount for hospitals and health systems as they strive to acquire, retain, and re-activate patients, and, ultimately, drive revenue. Now, more than ever, it is critical that healthcare organizations create and maintain positive, lasting relationships with their patients, both current and prospective, working to attract them into their network and keep them there.

Health systems must capitalize on every patient and consumer interaction—from fielding the first inquiry to actively supporting proactive health, ongoing care, and recovery—to achieve a “trusted provider” status in the eyes of consumers and patients. Yet, the majority of call centers today do not deliver the robust, personalized support capabilities today’s patients and consumers expect, and the current healthcare marketing environment demands.
Download your free copy of this eBook to learn why sophisticated health systems are transforming yesterday’s call center into tomorrow’s engagement center.

Smarter growth for healthcare providers requires a strong patient acquisition engine that can demonstrate ROI. By focusing on the financial impact of marketing efforts, healthcare marketers demonstrates why these efforts warrant further investment.
This guide presents the Evariant approach to calculating service line ROI from marketing spend. It includes a standard set of formulas and optional factors that may be relevant to certain service lines and system-wide operations.

Healthcare CRM allow marketers to implement precision marketing techniques to target patients most likely to need a service, align to and improve the patient journey, and engage patients to drive loyalty and retention. Every hospital and healthcare system benefits from a correctly implemented CRM solution as it helps organizations build engaged and loyal audiences. Download this guide to learn to improve your marketing engine through the use of a healthcare CRM.

As the healthcare landscape continues to move toward a customer-centric approach, there’s a lot healthcare can learn from retail. More specifically, lessons from retail call centers offer the healthcare sector best practices to provide better personalization in their engagements with consumers and patients – before and after clinical encounters.
This guide explores three ways retail call centers provide experiences that healthcare leaders can incorporate to provide the personalization needed to impact consumers in today’s evolving healthcare marketing landscape.

With its clients’ needs as the cornerstone of its mission, a research and consulting firm in the healthcare industry wanted a better way to manage its business. The company had been using various spreadsheets and systems to track project and financial information, which made finding data time consuming and inefficient. As a project based business, with the majority of its projects ranging from 2-6 weeks in duration, the organization wanted an integrated solution to help optimize its overall project management approach. The firm selected Deltek and since implementation has experienced numerous benefits, including increased time savings, improved visibility into financial data and enhanced performance.

This guide reviews market drivers which are spurring innovation in benefits self-service and enrollment as well as wellness engagement. In addition, it overviews the main capabilities of the leading virtual assistant solution, CIVA benefits advisor.

This guide reviews some market drivers which are spurring innovation in patient engagement and wellness participation. In addition, it overviews the main capabilities of the leading virtual assistant solution, CIVA health adviser.

Health insurance marketing is highly regulated and nuanced with complexities. Success depends upon marketers' - and their agencies' - ability to exploit knowledge of the regulatory environment as well as specialized direct/digital practices. Category expertise is critical.

Social media allows consumers to be empowered in a brand new way, forcing organizations to change the way they traditionally do business. With unprecedented access to unstructured and structured data, companies have more information about the customer’s entire lifecycle than ever before.

How to Keep Compliant, Avoid Mistakes, and Manage a Healthy Member List.
Net Atlantic's whitepaper, "Email Compliance & Best Practices for Healthcare" helps healthcare providers and healthcare product and service vendors understand email communications compliance issues. It illustrates how CAN-SPAM forms the foundation of compliance, and also explains why healthcare organizations have to go beyond CAN-SPAM to sustain a truly effective email communications strategy. Healthcare users of email for communications should know how to use these best practices before building their email campaigns.

Digital Business Transformation (DBT) is a focus of organizations ranging from small, non-profit associations to multi-billion dollar healthcare systems. The primary areas of DBT include moving from brick and mortar to online transactions, automation over human interactions and gaining immediate insight into activities to drive instant and constant improvement. At the forefront of DBT is Digital Marketing. Marketing’s primary job of gaining mindshare and communicating the right messages along each customer’s individual journey— from prospect to repeat buyer and brand advocate— lends itself to the digital medium. Marketing’s mission of continuous customer engagement depends on the ability to change strategies and tactics as needed.

Net Atlantic's whitepaper, "11 Proven Ways to Grow Your Email Marketing List" helps email marketing and communications managers increase the number of list members who are actively engaged. A larger list of interested, opt-in leads is by far the best population for creating opportunities. Sending responsibly frequent email campaigns to your mailing list will improve your overall marketing ROI better than just about any other tactic.

Every consumer or patient call into a health system’s call center is an opportunity to create a highly-personalized experience that ensures patient loyalty and extends patient lifetime value. Healthcare providers have a tremendous opportunity to invest in solutions and processes that can transform their call center into a profit center by driving smarter patient engagement.
Yet, the majority of call centers today do not deliver the robust, personalized support capabilities today’s patients and consumers expect, and the current healthcare marketing environment demands.
Download your free copy of this eBook to learn how to make the transformation from traditional call center to strategic patient engagement engine that drives growth in patient acquisition and lifetime patient value.

When call center agents don’t have access to an EMR, consumer demographic, sociological and other data, nor an understanding of marketing campaigns, agents are inefficient, reactive and unable to personalize interactions with patients and consumers. The disjointed call center experience harms the health system’s ability to find, guide, and keep patients for life.
The call center is often the first touch for many prospective healthcare customers, and Scripps Health recognized these challenges. They made the pivot from call center as cost center to strategic lynch pin in their patient experience strategy. Call center agents are now delivering a world-class patient experience as they provide physician referrals, take class registrations, and serve as a clearing house for general information . An added bonus of the shift is they can now integrate outbound calling into campaign efforts, and measure the full impact of marketing efforts and strengthen marketing’s ROI.
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Every consumer or patient call into a health system’s call center is an opportunity to create a highly-personalized experience that ensures patient loyalty and extends patient lifetime value. Healthcare providers have a tremendous opportunity to invest in solutions and processes that can transform their call center into a profit center by driving smarter patient engagement.
Yet, the majority of call centers today do not deliver the robust, personalized support capabilities today’s patients and consumers expect, and the current healthcare marketing environment demands.
Download your free copy of this eBook to learn how to make the transformation from traditional call center to strategic patient engagement engine that drives growth in patient acquisition and lifetime patient value.

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